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Cedar View welcomed over 250 people to “Family Fitness Fun” on Thursday night! This is our second year of holding family nights and we are building off our great success with “Math Night” in the fall. We had a certified instructor doing kickboxing in the gym, a zumba instructor in the cafeteria, and boot camp with Mr. Secor in the media center. I have attached a handful of pictures (see more on twitter @secorsig).

The YMCA brought a taste-tester with healthy food. Jennifer Willette, Lana Kamer, our high school Red Hawk athletes, and our PTO helped to secure and organize healthy snack bags for students and parents. A huge thank you goes out to the PTO, the Cedar View “family night” committee, and all Cedar View staff who attended, advertised, or helped with set-up. Thank you to parents who brought their students out and got a great work-out in! Just another reminder of the strong bond between school and community here in Cedar Springs! This is truly a special place. Look for family night #3 coming this spring!

Students at Cedar View Elementary continue a daily focus on using their “Habits of Mind.” In an effort to foster a culture of students displaying model behaviors, teachers came together forming a ‘Positive Behavior Committee.’ The committee works together to plan monthly

Twice a month, each teacher chooses one student to be inducted into the “Hawkeye Hall of Fame.” Students have their name called over the announcements, choose a reward from Mr. Secor, display their picture on the hall of fame wall, and they put their autograph next to their picture. Students beam as they receive the praise they truly deserve. As students return to their classrooms, the entire student body lines the halls to cheer and high-five honored students as music plays over the intercom. It is exciting to see students take pride in accomplishments as they reach personal goals focused on habits of mind growth!

This year, Cedar View has targeted the following habits of mind:

1) Persistence

2) Restraining impulsivity

3) Thinking about thinking

4) Thinking interdependently

5) Listening with understanding and empathy

*Look for pictures and autographs of the first Hawkeye Hall of Fame inductees from Friday, September 26th when you visit!

This photo from last March shows Hank Porter going to the hoop against Muskegon. Porter was chosen All conference honorable mention last year as a junior.

Godwin may have beat the Cedar Springs Varsity basketball team in the last game of the season, but it was still a great game—and one that both players and coaches will remember—especially Red Hawk coach Andy Secor and student coach Hank Porter.

Porter wasn’t meant to be a student coach in his senior year. As a junior he was chosen as all-conference honorable mention. Despite battling a torn meniscus in his knee the first half of his junior season and missing five games, he still scored 143 points, and led the team with just under 9 points a game. He also had 38 rebounds, 24 assists, and 11 steals, helping the Red Hawks tie for second in the conference.

Then during football season last fall, Porter tore his anterior cruciate ligament. He sat out the football season, and spent the basketball season doing a little bit of everything—managing, running the clock, coaching other students, etc.—until the Godwin game. Coach Secor had something special planned.

“I wanted to honor him in a special way for all he did this season and what he has meant to our basketball program,” he explained.

Secor got the Wolverines Coach Chad Conklin and his team to agree to let Cedar Springs get the opening tipoff, and the Red Hawks then passed it off to Porter, who drove down court for an uncontested layup—his only points all year. The Wolverines then raced down court for an uncontested basket as well.

Secor said he had the idea early on in the season. “I know the Godwin coach well, he’s a great guy and a very good coach. When I approached him about the idea, he was 100 percent on board and thought it was the right thing to do,” he explained.

Coach told Porter pretty early in the season. “I wanted him to have something to look forward to as I knew coming to practices and games, without participating, would be tough on him.”

It was a special moment for Porter, who was happy to be back out on the court with his teammates for the final game of the season. And it was special for Secor as well.

He said a friend of his sent him a quote after hearing about the game: People don’t remember days, they remember moments. “That senior night moment we had for Hank is one I will never forget,” remarked Secor. “Five years from now I won’t remember the scores of games or even specifics on who we lost to or where we won games. But that moment, I won’t forget.”

Red Hawks finish second in holiday tournament

Middleville defeats Cedar Springs in 49-48 thriller

Red Hawk Jason Gingrich came on strong, scoring 19 points against Middleville, including a 3-pointer for the final play of the game.

After defeating Kent City in the opening game of the second annual Cedar Springs Holiday Tournament, the Red Hawks had only hours to prepare for the championship game the very next day. The challenge for Cedar Springs was to try to slow down 6-foot-8-inch Ferris State bound center Jared Stolicker. In a 9 a.m. practice on game day, the Red Hawks worked to do just that.
Stolicker entered the game averaging 26.5 points and 15 rebounds per game this season. “Middleville is a solid basketball team with the best player we have faced so far (Stolicker),” said Cedar Springs head coach Andy Secor. “Coming into the game he had consecutive games of 38 points and 28 points.” The aggressive Red Hawk defense dug in their heels and held Stolicker to only 12 points and 5 rebounds.
Cedar Springs began the game with four points each from Jason Gingrich and Derek Ash, then an Alec Hanmer three-pointer gave the Red Hawks an 11-10 lead after one quarter. In the 2nd quarter, Gingrich hit a three, then Derek Ash took over. Ash scored eight consecutive points with the towering Stolicker guarding him, outplaying the Ferris recruit. Cedar led 22-19 at the half.

Jason Gingrich hits the running 3 pointer on the final play of the game.

A Tyler Baker jumper started off the second half for the Red Hawks. Then Tyler Covell canned two 3-pointers followed by field goals by Gingrich and Trey Reed. Cedar led 34-33 after three quarters. The Red Hawks opened the fourth with a Gingrich triple, followed by 2 Alec Hanmer lay-ups, but Middleville took the lead with 2:07 left.
Trailing by 2 with one minute left, Cedar failed to score and after a Middleville rebound, were forced to foul. Middleville converted all 6 of their free throws in the last minute. Two pull up jumpers by Gingrich kept Cedar within striking distance, but Red Hawks could not gain any ground as the Trojans made all their free throws. Gingrich converted a 3-pointer at the buzzer to cut the Middleville winning margin to 49-48.
“We needed to make a few more plays offensively down the stretch to secure the win,” said coach Secor. “In a game like that, all it takes is one less turnover, a made free throw, one more block out, a better play call from the bench, all of those things could’ve made the difference in that game and we were just one play away,” he said.

Alec Hanmer goes up for 2 of his 7 points.

Gingrich led Cedar Springs with 19 points and 6 assists. Derek Ash had 12 points and 8 rebounds, outshining the Middleville star. Alec Hanmer scored 7 points and had 6 assists in his best game of the year. Covell scored 6 points, Reed and Baker had 2 each.
Despite the loss, Coach Secor found some positives. “The championship game was just a great high school game to be a part of. I thought we played one of our best games of the year,” he said. “I thought the kids executed our defensive game plan very well. Our defense is holding teams to 38 points per game, and that is something we are taking great pride in and trying to carry it over into OK Blue play.”
The Red Hawks continue with OK Blue Conference play when the travel to Coopersvile Friday to take on the Broncos. Game time is 6 p.m.